Cat Connor

Cat Connor is the Upper Hutt, New Zealand based author of killerbyte, terrorbyte, exacerbyte, flashbyte, and soundbyte - her latest FBI thriller about the life of SSA Ellie Conway. She is published by Rebel ePublishers, USA. Her first novel, killerbyte, was a finalist in the 2010 EPIC awards. Cat's love for action and adventure shines through in her fast-paced crime thrillers. As a self-confessed coffee addict who loves greyhounds, Cat is often described as irresistible, infectious, and addictive. She believes music is essential. Knows where to hide the body and what you did last night.

Twitter:@catconnor@EllieConwaySA

Cat is a member of The New Zealand Society of Authors, Backspace.org, Kiwi writers.org, and International Thriller Writers,Inc.

Haven't had a lot of breathing room in the last few months (six months) but now both projects are finished.

So ... I'm kinda lost really.

Finished projects and nothing else looming. Well, that's not quite true I guess, there's a question. I keep hearing it.
"I don't even know what I'm looking at." Ellie is says it and has been saying it for weeks - every time she thinks I'm listening. I don't know that I want to know what she's looking at. :) I certainly

It must be a slow week or something .... Wednesday seems to have taken forever to arrive.
Probably not helped by a lack of sleep so far this week.

The trailer for eraserbyte is maybe 85% done now, that was yesterday mornings thing. Would've preferred to make it on the laptop using the software I've pretty much always used BUT the laptop is utter crap now and it's not possible to do anything involving that many video sequences and images.
Highly annoying.
Took awhil

Fair question because the wine I am drinking tonight is a Sauvignon Blanc Pinot Gris. Really?
Try harder?
Could ya?
Or as The Girl Wonder calls it "Whale Pee". But then she is only 16 (almost) and has no taste buds to speak of, yet.
She's now laughing at me (not wine related) because we were having a conversation about someone and I cringed. And rightly so. :)
Yeah nah I don't swing that way.
Other child is bouncing around (sorry, I mean dancing) beh

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The Admins visited today.
They're pretty freaking awesome friends and damn good Admins.
And I love them to bits.

No secret that ERASERBYTE is The Admins book. Not that they've read it yet. But Admin Bubbles does have a sneak preview loaded on her kindle app.
I couldn't make a launch cake this year. But not to worry because ... The Admins have sorted the launch cake. I injected it with 60 mils of brandy this afternoon because they thought it might not have enough in

I know I can be a bit lazy when I'm writing.
But I just discovered I'd missed/skipped an entire chapter! Can't think of a reason why I would skip it either.
Whoops.
Good thing I opened the psychobyte file to have a read and make sure a new thread was carried all the way to the end, before I submit it to Rebel. Lucky I did open it and not just trust myself! :)
Yeah bugger.
So yesterday I wrote - the missing chapter. Five hours at my desk ... making sure everything wa

I have mixed feelings about it. :)
But I think the upshot is ... could be worse. So let's go with that, shall we?

Hung out with The Admins last night which was a lot of fun as always. Although we did have business to discuss.
And that reminds me I still need to write the acknowledgments for Eraserbyte.
Should probably get on with that. Maybe that will be today's task?
It's the hardest part of writing the book ... next to wri

Last year Graeme came up with an idea for Writer's Plot. (I think he soon wished he hadn't because I stepped back and encouraged him to bring his idea to the group and take charge!)
His idea was hashed out over the table with the group.
We'd all write a short story on a single theme.
In fact we all wrote about our characters journey to a funeral and what the deceased meant to our character ... the deceased was Sister Mary Margaret.
It was a fun exercise.
The goal wa

... that some of you didn't know I was gone - let alone realize I am back. :)

I've been off having an adventure for the last two weeks and it was a truly awesome adventure.
Not even work related! Just fun. Vacationing with The Knight in Perth. I haven't spent this amount of time on a motorbike since I was a teenager ... and I'd never spent any time at all on a Harley.
Let's get this right shall we? A 1996 wide glide.
Somewhere there are pictures - I need to find th

Just sometimes a scene will stick. It kinda judders to a halt for no good reason, well, not one you can see at the time.
You're happily writing away, you read the scene, it makes sense, you're joyful and move on.
Then one day that scene comes back and kicks you, really hard in the shins and demands that you fix it.
You read it and it all makes sense. You tell it to STFU and move on.
It won't go quietly.
Next thing you know it smacks you upside the head and demands y

It occurred to me a few days ago that there is another Byte novel lurking in the gray area beyond psychobyte.

I don't know what it's about or what it's called.
Thank you for all your suggestions though. :)
Some were truly hilarious and some downright scary ... some of you people are a bit sick. Just putting that out there.

The ink is barely dry on the psychobyte manuscript and already Ellie is showing me things I don't want to see.
She's good at that.

(For those of you who don't know - You can sleep while I dream is a Bon Jovi song.)

It's Saturday.
The week flashed by super quick - it's a good thing. Hopefully the next two weeks slow down some.

Elvis would've been 80 this week ... unbelievable really. Now as he was born the same year as Superman - come December there will be one very unimpressed Superman who looks nothing like an 80 year old!

Last night I wanted to watch a DVD and for some reason my brain thought my books existed as movies. Pretty disappointed when they didn't. :) Two friends had suggestions though ...
1. 48hour film challenge
2. A really long trailer.

Man that would be fun. And super hard. But so much fun!

Anyway ... have a partial script sitting here for killerbyte but that's as far as I've ever go

Last year soundbyte came 3rd (or 2nd) can't remember or check at the moment - but definitely top 10! Would be rather nice to do better this year. (Could do better ... haha, having a Miranda moment now.)

For your ease and convenience I have added the links below ...

3 books in this year.

Tangled up in Blue (SSA Kurt Henderson's story) in the short story category.
Databyte - the 6th byte novel in the thriller category.
W

We'll have a Merry Christmas (actually more like a merry winter solstice in the summer because I never have been able to get my head around the upside downness of it all ... go with it, it's easier on your brain.)

Speaking of brains ... (no not zombie talk)
I was a bit tired last night after using mine for 2 hours. For all I didn't want to start reviewing edits until after Christmas, it's happening and it's fun.
I'm two-thirds of the way through eraserbyte already. So fa

Tuesday (Christmas eve eve?)
Up earlier than expected because I forgot to put the bin out on Monday evening. Also awake much earlier than expected.
I think I fell asleep on the phone last night talking to The Knight.

Monday was an okay day.
Busy.
But that's a good thing.
I got to do something nice to brighten someone's day and that was awesome.
Apart from Christmas crackers (of which there are none this year) we're all set for Christmas.

We almost had sun yesterday. It was warm and grey but bright. Washing got dry. Bonus!
It's supposed to be sunny for most of the coming week ... that'd be nice especially as it's apparently Christmas on Thursday?
It's raining today. Poured down all night.
Welcome to summer?

Would be the perfect rainy crap day to get stuck into reading the edits and so forth but this piece of shit laptop is driving me truly insane. It's taking liberties wi

It's almost Christmas and another year is nearly done.
This year is the second year of changes in our family. Change is good albeit sometimes uncomfortable. It's still good and it's still moving in the right direction.

There are a lot of things I'm grateful for (Thanks Doug for inspiring this blog) ... a supportive family, good friends, a roof over our heads, food on the table, shoes on our feet ... my ability to tell a story

Excuse me folks, so sorry to interrupt, I'm running a bit behind on the interrogations ... life happened and then there was the shortage of sodium thiopental ... and apparently water sports are frowned upon so we had to wait. As you were.
Kia ora,Please welcome our latest victim guest, Claire Plaisted, On the metal plate suspended above that puddle by wires is a bag of pineapple lumps. Behave and the delicious chewy pineapple and chocolate lumps won’t end up a goopy mess o

Was a busy week which ended with my birthday on Friday. Had a pretty good day despite having to take Breezy to a school dance (I decided to run away instead of staying - seemed smarter than getting a migraine from the noise!). Also, I was hungover. That did not help.
For future reference ... no Merlot. Seriously, I'm much better off sticking with tequila or scotch or a nice pinot gris.
Had a scotch tonight and it was nice, also the first drink I've ha